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NUMISMATIC NUGGETS: OCTOBER 18, 2020Here's a selection of interesting or unusual items I came across in the marketplace this week. Tell us what you think of some of these. -Editor
1786 New Jersey Copper 
W-4810,R.1 *** Handsome first year of issue. Nice light brown color qualifies this coin as choice. Affordable grade with mint state costing double or triple.
Nice coin. I saw this one in the stock of Harry Laibstain Rare Coins. -Editor
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Oval George Washington Portrait Medallion 
c. 1800s Classic George Washington Portrait Oval Medallion, Wedgewood Jasperware style, Framed, Extremely Fine. This Wedgewood Jasperware style George Washington Portrait White Medallion measures about 1.75” x 2” and is housed in a 11.5” x 13.5”oval wooden frame. The central mounted Oval Medallion has a black background, itself mounted to a white linnen on board, with the contrasting white profile image of George Washington in relief under modern plexiglass. Some minor edge chips to the black mount portion at top and bottom.
Plaster medallions are discussed elsewhere in today's issue. This piece is in the October 31, 2020 Early American History Auctions sale. -Editor
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1848 Will Page Medal 
From the Stack's Bowers November 2020 auction. One of the benefits of collecting medals, tokens and other numismatica is the opportunity to learn about history and historical figures one might not otherwise come across. This medal celebrates artist Will Page with a bold obverse portrait and an unusually plain reverse picturing an artist's palette. -Editor
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National Bank of Scotland Five Pound Note 
National Bank of Scotland P253/NA36 £5 Drever/HS A First 11.11.32 GVG+ £270
Here's a note I came across in Pam West's A Bank Note Affair newsletter #167. -Editor
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Macerated Money Postcards 
Eagle with raised wings left of POST CARD, stamp placement guide and text asserting that paper is made of redeemed and macerated banknotes estimated at $200.00. Five with PUBLISHED BY J.F JARVIS imprint, three with SOLD BY J.F. JARVIS imprint, and one with no imprint at all. The last card with no imprint has some ink writing over the stamp guide. Provenance: From our (Coin Galleries') sale of December 2009, lot 1721.
A neat item of numismatic ephemera. I'd never seen these before. Also from the Stack's Bowers November 2020 auction. -Editor
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